• The Helikon vortex separation process is an aerodynamic uranium enrichment process designed around a device called a vortex tube. Paul Dirac thought of...
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  • searching for a device to perform isotope separation, leading to development of the Helikon vortex separation process. German physicist Rudolf Hilsch [de]...
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    collection efficiency. Physics portal Centrifuge Dust collector Helikon vortex separation process Hydrocyclone Hydrodynamic separator Rust (fungus) § Management...
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  • in developing its nuclear weapons. Vortex tubes were used by South Africa in their Helikon vortex separation process. The gas is injected tangentially...
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  • Helicon (redirect from Helikon)
    crater Helicon (physics), low frequency electromagnetic waves Helikon vortex separation process, used for uranium enrichment Helicon Double Layer Thruster...
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    programme operated until 1993. History of biological warfare Helikon vortex separation process Military history of South Africa Nuclear weapons and Israel...
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  • Enriched uranium (category Isotope separation)
    of South Africa (UCOR) developed and deployed the continuous Helikon vortex separation cascade for high production rate low-enrichment and the substantially...
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    Radioisotopes Group had sales of 1.222 billion ZAR (€75M) in 2016. Helikon vortex separation process Nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear reprocessing South Africa and weapons...
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  • alternative, the Helikon vortex separation process, has no moving parts and thus less demand on the tubes, but takes much more energy. If the Helikon had been...
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    1970, that it was able to enrich uranium by means of the Helikon vortex separation process, by means of a jet-nozzle to accumulate the uranium 235 isotope...
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  • physics) Helicity basis Helicon (physics) Helicon discharge Helikon vortex separation process Helimagnetism Heliocentrism Heliophysics Helioseismology Heliosphere...
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    Wadley. 1960s, Helikon vortex separation processis an aerodynamic uranium enrichment process designed around a device called a vortex tube.The Uranium...
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    University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1969. He conceived the Helikon vortex isotope separation process in 1934. In 1937, he proposed a speculative cosmological...
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